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India`s Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals has placed an order with South Korea`s Hyundai Heavy Industries for two Afamax tankers. One vessel is expected to be delivered in the last quarter of 2008…

Germanischer Lloyd has just published the new "IMO Pilot 2006" with an overview on the current legislation of the IMO is now available. New additions include the requirement to fit water level…

Hyundai Samho Shipbuilding in South Korea clinched two more VLCCs from NSCSA in Saudi Arabia. The 318,000DWT tankers will be delivered by 2009 at a total price of around $240 million.

Bohai Shipbuilding in China won an order for two 300,000DWT VLCCs and eight 50,000DWT product carriers from Nanjing Tanker Corporation at a total cost of around $500 million. No delivery date has…

The world's largest container ship, a 9,500 TEU post-Panamax vessel classed by Germanischer Lloyd, has been christened ?COSCO NINGBO?. The 350 m long, 42.8 m wide 109,149 DWT ship was built by…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea won an order for six 46,000DWT product carriers from the Norwegian shipping company Westfal-Larsen at a total contract price of $300 million. They will be delivered…

After successful trials on HMS Marlborough in 2005, QinetiQ's Onboard Risk Performance Hazard Evaluation system (ORPHEUS) is now undergoing year-long trials on three Royal Navy Type 23 frigates - HMS Northumberland, HMS…

MIROS, the Norwegian supplier of sensor-based met-ocean systems for the offshore industry in Norway, has won an agreement to supply five of its marine x-band radar-based oil spill detection systems to the…

The fifth South Korean built 4,200 ton class destroyer was recently launched at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). This is part of a six-ship series all being built at DSME since…

Evergreen Marine Corp. of Taiwan, which operates Asia?s largest container shipping line, plans to order at least 20 container ships in the next 10 years to replace existing vessels.The boom in transporting…